Rio: Unravelling the Consequences

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Caroline Thomas
Psychology Press, 1994 - 244 pages
The interdisciplinary collection of essays investigates whether UNCED and its output were appropriate for averting global environmental and developmental catastrophe. The intellectual debate inside and outside UNCED has been dominated by powerful entrenched interests which marginalise rival interpretations of the crisis and block possible alternative ways forward. The crisis is therefore being tackled by a continuation of the very policies that largely caused it in the first place.

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Contents

An Introduction Caroline Thomas
1
The Environment on the Periphery
28
Global Environmental Degradation Modernity
46
Structural Adjustment Programmes and
65
Issues
80
The Market for Sulphur Dioxide Permits in
98
The United Nations Role in Sustainable
123
Local Government
137
The Politics of Climate Change after UNCED Matthew Paterson
174
Population Dynamics and Environmental
191
Freshwater and the PostUNCED Agenda Darryl Howlett
210
Security Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
225
INDEX
238
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